Jennifer Vela-Valido, Ph.D. is a Localization Strategist with over 10 years of experience in Localization Vendor Management and Localization Quality Solutions. She currently works as a Localization Quality Program Manager at Spotify.
Jennifer recently completed her PhD in Localization Quality Management and she also works as a researcher specializing in localization strategies, vendor management and linguistic quality management. She is an active member of Subcommittee F43.03 on Language Translation at ASTM International and the ISO/TC 37/SC 5/WG 1 – Translation group at ISO.
In March 2023, Jennifer was selected as one of the most influential women in the Translation and Localization industry by Multilingual magazine.